Eco Colour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eco Colour write by India Flint. This book was released on 2010-09-14. Eco Colour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essence of plants bursts forth in magnificent hues and surprising palettes. Using dyes of the leaves, roots, and flowers to color your cloth and yarn can be an amazing journey into botanical alchemy. In Eco Colour, artistic dyer and colorist India Flint teaches you how to cull and use this gentle and ecologically sustainable alternative to synthetic dyes. India explores the fascinating and infinitely variable world of plant color using a wide variety of techniques and recipes. From whole-dyed cloth and applied color to prints and layered dye techniques, India describes only ecologically sustainable plant-dye methods. She uses renewable resources and shows how to do the least possible harm to the dyer, the end user of the object, and the environment. Recipes include a number of entirely new processes developed by India, as well as guidelines for plant collection, directions for the distillation of nontoxic mordants, and methodologies for applying plant dyes. Eco Colour inspires both the home dyer and textile professional seeking to extend their skills using India's successful methods.
Nature's Colorways
Nature's Colorways - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature's Colorways write by Linda Ligon. This book was released on 2021-09. Nature's Colorways available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Second Skin
Second Skin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Second Skin write by India Flint. This book was released on 2012-10-10. Second Skin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Almost from the moment of our birth, clothing acts as our second skin, yet we rarely consider where our clothes come from, or the effects they might have on the environment. This beautifully photographed is about easily achievable ways to care for the planet by living a little simpler regarding cloth and clothing. Get a handle on how cloth consumption affects nature on a larger scale. Look at what textiles are really made from, and examine their properties with an emphasis on those derived from natural sources. In no time you'll have the tools to make informed choices regarding clothing--including deciding how much clothing a person really needs. Second Skin also covers how to mend and maintain clothing, re-purpose fashion, dye clothing, and when all else fails, what it takes to patch, piece, and felt.
Harvesting Color
Harvesting Color - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harvesting Color write by Rebecca Burgess. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Harvesting Color available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "'Harvesting Color' presents the entire process of infusing your life with color--finding the right plants, harvesting them at the best time, transforming the crop into beautiful dye, and, finally, marring pigment to fiber. In this beautiful book, Rebecca Burgess showcases thre dozen common plants that yield striking hues. Citing fascinating botanical lore, she demystifies the process of recognizing each plant in the wild. For those you can grow yourself, she details when to sow the seed and how to nuture the plant. For all the plants, you'll learn the optimal time to harvest, as well as how to extract the best dyes" --Cover flap.
Wild Colour
Wild Colour - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wild Colour write by Jenny Dean. This book was released on 2010. Wild Colour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jenny Dean's Wild Colour is the modern classic title on traditional dyeing methods. A celebration of the wealth of natural dyes that can be obtained from over 60 species of plants from common marigolds to rhubarb. Part one introduces the concept of natural dyeing and demonstrates how easy it is to get started. All the techniques are explained with step-by-step sequences and photographs. Colour charts help you to work out which method is best for each dye plant and material.Part two reveals the wide range of plants that you can use for natural dyeing. Colour swatches show the tried and tested range of colours you can extract from each plant.
